News

1/27/2021
Prof. Timothy Ford, the new chair of Biomedical and Nutritional Sciences, has extensive experience researching infectious diseases, from E. coli to cholera, in countries around the world. Ford says that global epidemics, including COVID-19, need global as well as local solutions.

1/27/2021
We are divided. Luckily. we have an expert like Political Science professor Morgan Marietta to help us understand the depths and implications of such a chasm.

1/25/2021
Senior education majors at UMass Lowell are facing unprecedented challenges as they do their student teaching online, in classrooms, or both. But they say that the children and their mentor teachers make it all worthwhile.

1/6/2021
It’s not a stretch to say COVID-19 has changed everything, from the way we work and learn, to how we access health care or cast ballots. We asked our resident experts at UML to weigh in on what we can expect in a post-pandemic world.

12/23/2020
Thanks to a pair of three-year grants totaling more than $612,000 from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, Biology Asst. Prof. Jennifer L. Fish is conducting studies to understand how genetic mutations cause birth defects of the head, face and mouth.

12/12/2020
Lowell-based invisaWear’s panic button jewelry, co-founded by UMass Lowell graduates Rajia Abdelaziz and Ray Hamilton, is now partnering with ADT, one of the most well-known national security companies, bringing together ADT’s mobile safety platform and invisaWear’s wearable safety devices. 

12/7/2020
UML reached its fundraising goal two years early in 2018 with the single largest gift it has ever received: $5 million donated by alumnus Brian Rist, president and founder of Florida-based Storm Smart Industries, who was already a scholarship contributor.

10/31/2020
Alum Noelle Lambert was recently named one of the 10 L’Oreal Paris Women of Worth. L’Oreal donated $10,000 to the Born to Run Foundation. If Lambert wins an online voting program, her foundation will receive $25,000 more from L’Oreal.

10/7/2020
While many other colleges and universities are struggling with clusters of COVID-19 outbreaks on and around their campuses, UMass Lowell has only had two positive tests since the beginning of the semester.

9/17/2020
A new initiative at UMass Lowell will be providing a window into the history and into the unique cultural traditions that Portuguese-Americans have brought to such communities as Lowell, Lawrence, Gloucester, and Hudson.